One of six works by the artist commissioned by the Welsh Arts Council for the exhibition 'The Fall' which opened at the Oriel in April 1976 and toured to Bangor Art Gallery, the Museum and Art Gallery, Newport and the Glynn Vivian Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea. The artists commissioned for 'The Fall' - Mervyn Baldwin, Paul Bowen, Ian Grainger, Will Lorimer, Chris Orr and Gwyn Watkins - were challenged to provide a series of illustrations to specific biblical passages relating to the story of Adam and Eve
The Fall No.5.
A Biblical man and woman / Adam and Eve embracing each other, in the distance, after having left the Garden of Eden, in the foreground. Eve has dropped the flowers she previously held along the direction in which she walked. The snake / serpent is partially seen in the bottom left corner beside the edge of faded flowers of the garden where a caterpillar chrysalis is visible alongside the artist signature?. Black out line drawing coloured with very subtle blue and red grey tones, the dark thinner strip of sky from ‘The Fall No.4’ has expanded further down the image and more of the top right corner and bottom right corner has been removed to create an irregular shaped composition.